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•Essay topics will be distributed via WebCT during Week 02
•As a consequence of the new 12-week semester, Tutorials meet during
Week 01

World History?
Why study World History?
•To understand the human community
•To contextualize the Nation State
•The get the big picture – the themes that permeate history but are not always apparent in local or national history

Themes
•Connections and interactions
•Ways of life (hunter-gatherer, agricultural, industrial)
•Changing economic, social, and political structures
•The rise of the state / forms of the state
•The environmental and ecological context of human history

This course is thematic rather than comprehensive

Shawn Ross

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HIST1016 World History: The Big Picture

3/15/2008

The Paleolithic
(to 10,000 BC in the Near East – later elsewhere)

The Ice Age: Maximum Extent

The Ice Age: LGM

Shawn Ross

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HIST1016 World History: The Big Picture

3/15/2008

Climate Change since the Last Glacial Maximum

The Upper Paleolithic: Population
•The Upper Paleolithic is the Late Stone
Age, from ca. 50,000 – 10,000 years ago
•Paleolithic hunter-gatherer groups range from 20-25 people each; larger clans of
150-200 people meet occasionally for trade and exogamy
•Humans need ca. 30 square km each, ca.
600-750 for a typical group
•10-20k (?) people in all of Europe; world population ca. 5 million (?)
•Population low, but interaction continues; a “web” of genes and technology reaches most parts of the world

Reconstruction of a Paleolithic tent

Upper Paleolithic: Humans & Nature
•Humans impact all ecosystems they encounter
•Across the globe, extinctions of “charismatic megafauna” coincide with advent of Man
•Less dramatically, pollen analysis reveals dramatic changes in vegetation, often induced by large-scale intentional fires
•Modify environment so that it is more congenial, but do not control it

Drawing of paintings found in
Lascaux Cave including extinct cave lions (France, 17-15,000 years ago)

Related Documents: intro to hist Essays

Kayla Salazar
June 10, 2015
Charlie Steen
HIST 101
Assignment #1
In my opinion the Theban Plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Calonna were all so very horrifying. Sophocles is the author of The Theban Plays who also wrote several more. It was said that he was concerned with the individual struggle people had with fate. Each of his stories involves a lesson that he wanted to teach the audience. Still to this day the lessons can be taught to people. The plays would include fate, loyalty…

HIST 2011
READING ASSIGNMENT 1
Before the revolution in America it was a time when women did not have a part in making any kind of political decisions, did not have more than a really basic education, and were usually economically dependent on men. They bore and nurtured children, performed the household tasks determined by their husbands, and were helping the males in their lives. Running a household was therefore what most of the women could expect to do as their career. The household tasks…

Brooke Tussey
04/09/15
HIST 2010
History: Paper 2
Equality is defined as the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunity. In the years between the American Revolution and the end of the Mexican War, equality was not a common concept amongst the people. Between class divisions and race and gender oppression, the only people that seemed to get all of the privileges promised by the Declaration of Independence were white men. Out of all of the different groups who suffered from…

Monica Cordeiro-Davick
HIST 100
Professor Hay
12 February 2015
Siddhartha
1. Why are we reading this book in this class?
This may be a trick question because the answer is in your syllabus. Because this is a History 100 course, this book provides us with the “sensitivity to their diverse cultural contexts and historical moments [and] various aesthetic and other value systems and the ways they are communicated across time and cultures” (Hay, syllabus). As our lectures transferred over from Hinduism…

HIST 121
Middle Eastern History, 1200 to 1800
Fall 2010
Instructor: Prof. Fariba Zarinebaf (Faribaz@ucr.edu)
Class hours: T-TH 11:10- 12:30 Surge 171
Office Hours (HMNSS 5506): T-Th 2:00-3:30
Course description: This class offers a survey of Middle Eastern history from 1200 to 1800. After a brief introduction to the rise and expansion of Islam, the first part of this class will cover the rise of Turkic dynasties and the impact of the Mongol invasions and rule on Islamic societies. The second…

Hist 211 – History of the Cold War
Dr. Mckercher
From World War to Cold War
A new Cold War?
Pro Eastern and Western Ukraine
 sanctions against Russia by Western World
Conflicts in North Korea and Afghanistan
Mostly just conflicts from the Cold War that occurred
Cold War
Stuggle between 2 superpowers
 US and USSR (destined to collide with each other)
Bi-polar
 describe two competing powers
 dozens of small wars (other countries fighting)
Cold (not a shooting war)
 “peace impossible, war…

The Proposal of Hist 281 Essay
The topic of my essay is: The influence of Christianity development related to the rebellion in East Asia since 1500
My essay is focus on the influence of Christianity since the western explorers found and contacted with East Asia. In my opinion, Christianity can be regarded as a “flag” that is symbolizing western effect through the whole world. One typical method of Christianity establishing influence was built Christian church and converted local people religion…

Kaela Dominguez
Professor Schendan
HIST 15A-4
26, November 2014
The Start of a New Government
On July 4, 1776, the Americans took tremendous strides in their freedom from Great Britain’s restraints and remarkably declared their independence, however this forced them to take on the task of creating an overall new government that cherished their values. In our world today, most Americans don’t realize that when the government was first established the main focus was on state governments individually…

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